The Denver Art Museum looks like the front lawn of the Jimmie Carter family Peanut Ranch in Plains, Georgia after brother Billie crushed the one-millionth empty beer can on his head and built a three-story, 50,000 square-foot, all-aluminum outhouse on it.

Whomever compiled this list obviously hasn't visited the new Hamilton wing of the Denver Art Museum, or the Central branch of the Denver Public Library. What makes both of these buildings interesting, though, is that their interiors are actually very well-designed, functional, and inviting spaces. Too bad we can't say the same for the exteriors. But I think that by far the ugliest building in Denver, bar none, is the Federal Reserve Bank on 16th Street between Curtis and Arapahoe. The building is hideous in its own right, but especially loathsome when you realize that the Tabor Grand Opera House, probably the finest building ever built in Denver, once stood on that site.

Now, if I had to make a list of the 9 ugliest buildings in Denver, they would be (in no particular order, except #1):

-The Federal Reserve Bank at 16th and Curtis
-Denver Art Museum's Hamilton Wing
-Denver Public Library Central Branch
-The office building at the southeast corner of 16th and Sherman
-The Colorado History Museum buiding
-The Colorado Judicial Branch building, next to the History Museum (it's ugly, but I still kinda like it in a weird sort of way)
-The Pepsi Center
-Denver International Airport
-Any of the Auraria Campus buildings constructed after 1970
-Purple, frame-constructed condos at the northwest corner of 10th and Pennsylvania

--The Office Depot on the 16th Street Mall (no windows!)
--The residential tower at 14th and Cherokee
--The office block on Colfax, near the US Mint (this building and its ugly friend on 14th block the mountain views from the Capitol)
--The Metroview project at 24th and Bryant (ugly and cheap-looking)
--The "gold building" at Colorado and Exposition (reflects sunlight for at least a block, blinding drivers and peds)
--The Denver Art Musem expansion ("Me-too"ism at its worst)
--Pearl Street Victoriana near 10th and Pearl (they took a Victorian house and "Victorianized" it- now it looks like a girl with way too much makeup)
-The Xcel Building at 15th and Welton (prison)
-The AT&T Building at 14th and Champa (I like how they fenced off the entrance- how friendly. Oh, and no windows)

- Any of the buildings that made up the old Gates Rubber Plant on S. Broadway - thank god they are being torn down as we speak.
- The Amphitheatre on the front of the Arvada Center, GAG!
- Office Depot on 16th Street Mall and Market
- The Old Regency Hotel at I-25/Park Ave W/38th Ave... looks only slightly better now as Auraria's student housing
- Denver Coliseum
- Denver's Water Building off I-25 just South of 6th Ave, what's with those things on that bridge by it? looks like guns pointing at the building...
- Wells Fargo Office Tower in Downtown Englewood

Invesco Field is incredibly ugly. Surrounded by permanent scaffolding, bent and misshapen, it resembles a crushed Coors can. Next time I drive by on I25, I might expect to see the tenants' laundry hanging out to dry. All this at public expense, all this for the benefit of a sleazy Canadian billionaire who once, like a spoiled child, threatened the city that he would move his football team (not yours, Denver) to Los Angeles unless the taxpayers would buy him a stadium. Well we did. Now money that could be going to our schools has gone to appease the whimsy of a wealthy creep.